Community affected:
* Those who need persistent URLs and don't know where to get them.
* Constituences who own and operate namespaces (e.g. Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, OASIS XRI TC, LSID)

External contacts & dependencies:
* We expect (3 March 2009) XRI TC to produce another draft of the XRI specification

Related Actions Items:

ACTION-32 on David Orchard to explore the space of external registries and to post to the tag member list - due 2007-08-24, closed

ACTION-98 on Noah Mendelsohn to Craft comments and send them on our behalf. - due 2008-02-07, closed

ACTION-152 on Jonathan Rees to Review overlap between the HCLSI URI note and HT's w.r.t. contribution to TAG finding on UrnsAndRegistries - due 2008-05-27, closed

ACTION-161 on Stuart Williams to " take a snapshot of this to store in tag working document area, as a start" - due 2008-06-12, closed

ACTION-167 on Henry Thompson to S to start a thread on non-DNS authority resolution on www-tag - due 2008-07-17, closed

ACTION-174 on Stuart Williams to Encourage discussion of proposal around http://xri.net/ or http://boeing.com.xri.net or http://xri/ or http://boeing.com.xri/ in www-tag - due 2008-09-30, closed

ACTION-175 on Stuart Williams to Collect input from TimBL and others and revise issue description - due 2008-09-30, closed

ACTION-189 on Henry Thompson to S. Send public comment to www-tag about the XRI proposal and the establishment of base URI. - due 2008-11-12, closed

ACTION-311 on Noah Mendelsohn to Schedule discussion of a persistent domain name policy promotion - due 2009-11-10, closed

ACTION-312 on Jonathan Rees to Find a path thru the specs that I think contradicts Dan's reading of webarch - due 2009-12-01, closed

ACTION-351 on Henry Thompson to Look into a workshop on persistence... perhaps the June 2010 timeframe - due 2010-03-16, closed

ACTION-402 on Jonathan Rees to Summarize JAR's message to HT re HTTP-based naming and put it(?) on the agenda - due 2010-03-18, closed

ACTION-414 on Henry Thompson to Prepare a draft agenda, including goals and means, for a proposed afternoon session with invited guests, and circulate for discussion prior to a decision, on the subject of addressing the persistence of domain names - due 2010-06-01, closed